A Joyful Noise

The Battenkill Chorale, with artistic director Janet McGhee, opens it’s 19th season with “Northern Lights,” a program of evocative, spiritual music from Norway, Latvia, and Russia, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19 at Zankel Music Center’s Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Skidmore College. Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling 518-692-7458 or emailing jen.braucher@gmail.com. There is also a free open dress rehearsal at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18 at Zankel Music Center, no tickets required.